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We invite you to participate in the exchange of ideas at this year’s Faculty Day Conference. The day promises to be filled with thought-provoking, absorbing and (perhaps) controversial presentations and discussions.
Throughout the day you will have many opportunities to speak about your latest ideas and creative work with familiar colleagues, while also getting to meet and collaborate with people from across the entire college community.
With lunch provided and refreshments served the entire day, you’ll have a unique opportunity to get to know other members of the college and share your thoughts, your concerns and your ideas. The Faculty Day Conference will renew your enthusiasm for scholarship while reinforcing your sense of connection to the Brooklyn College community.
We hope to see all of our full-time faculty, our adjunct faculty, and our professional staff at the 19th Annual Faculty Day Conference!
The 19th Annual Faculty Day Conference and Award Ceremony affords us an opportunity to pause from business as usual in order to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of the Brooklyn College faculty. The day features a multidisciplinary conference—including workshops, panel discussions, presentations, art gallery, academic poster sessions, and informal roundtable discussions over lunch—culminating in an awards ceremony and reception. At the conference, colleagues participate in an exchange of ideas about a wide variety of scholarly, artistic, and pedagogical interests and concerns. At the awards ceremony, individuals nominated by their fellow faculty members are honored for their accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.
The Faculty Day Conference emerged out of a desire to provide a unique college-wide opportunity to foster connections with our colleagues and improve the quality of intellectual and social life here on campus. Each year this day gives us a chance to engage in dialogue about academic and pedagogical activities with our colleagues from remarkably diverse disciplines.
Thank you for joining us at this year’s Faculty Day Conference and contributing to Brooklyn College’s professional and intellectual vitality.
State Lounge, fifth floor
For the remainder of the day, the State Lounge will have refreshments and computers/internet access for conference participants. Check your e-mail, double-check your presentation, grab a snack and chat with your colleagues.
Teaching People, Power, and Politics in a Brutal Age
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Emily Molina, Sociology
How are our students’ worldviews connected to, or disconnected from, critical historical and contemporary struggles and events? How can this course foster civic engagement and critical activism?
The Achievement Gap: A New Look Through the Lens of Early Childhood Development?
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Erika Niwa, Psychology and Children and Youth Studies
Elementary and high schools are asked to do more and more to close the “achievement gap” that exists for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, many of the factors that contribute to this gap occur outside of school and prior to formal education. This panel will look at some of the issues and solutions from an early childhood perspective.
The Brooklyn Listening Project: Discovering the Culture of Brooklyn Through Its Sounds and Stories
Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor An open discussion with project participants.
What happens when a group of students, staff and faculty set out to interview the borough, archive the recordings, and change the world? Students and faculty give the low-down.
Amyloids in Ale and Alzheimer’s: What Do We Know and What Can We Remember?
Occidental Lounge, fifth floor Moderator: David Balk, Health and Nutrition Sciences
Amyloid aggregates are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and prion diseases like mad cow disease. These aggregates also lead to microbial biofilms, including those that yeast use to make beer and wine, and those that form slime on rocks in streams. Amyloids are also being used as nanowires for nanotechnology. What are the beneficial and pathological activities of amyloids?
An Ownership Model of Education for the 21st Century
Aviary Lounge, fourth floor
What defines 21st-century global society? Find out what top scholars had to say and how these themes can inform a new approach to U.S. education.
When Research Is Really Me Search: An Academic’s Genealogical Journey
Cosmic Lounge, fifth floor
Genealogy can be a window into obscure, unrecognized historical events that reveal the heroes (and demons) of our ancestral past. It also reveals patterns in families that are repeated across generations. The presentation will study the complexities of class, oppression, political rebellion, and gender roles as seen through the micro-lens of the Diaz family tree.
Confronting the Illusion of an LGBTQ-Inclusive Brooklyn College
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Wayne Reed, Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education
Faculty discuss the challenges and possibilities of supporting LGBTQ students in a rapidly changing, historically heteronormative campus context.
From Ferguson to NYC: Research, Practice and Pedagogy on Race and Policing in the Age of Obama
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Alan Aja, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
From multiple disciplinary perspectives, we will critically examine the state of policing in a putative “post-racial” United States. With recent events in Ferguson to Cleveland to Staten Island as part of an interconnected background, we will discuss the public and policy responses to police brutality, the general state of race and community relations in the United States, and race and racism in the Brooklyn College classroom.
Repurposing Culture: Morphology, Commodification and Rupture in (and out of) Brooklyn
Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: David Grubbs, Conservatory of Music
Hear how in three different repurposed cultural contexts, cultural production has broken free from the creative intent/confines of its original creator and taken on new life.
Internationalizing Community Health: A Multidisciplinary Look at Africa’s Current and Future Health Challenges
Occidental Lounge, fifth floor Moderator: Peter Weston, Psychology
What can we do to raise awareness about Africa and global health disparities to most effectively educate and develop cultural competency among students and engage in the mission to reduce disease rates?
City Digits: Learning Mathematics of the City in the City
International Lounge, fifth floor
What are pawn shops, how much do they charge, and where can they be found? Join us to hear high school teachers and their students present about how they used digital maps and tools in their mathematics classrooms to investigate the inequities of financial institutions in our city.
Luncheon and Roundtable Discussions
Gold Room, sixth floor
Gallery and Academic Posters
Maroon Room, sixth floor
Parsing Plagiarism: Thoughts From the Academic Integrity Committee
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Patrick Kavanagh, Acting Director of Graduate Studies
A modest proposal of what to do when three-quarters of college students admit to cheating.
Promoting Healing and Acceptance Through Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Karel Rose, Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education
In the wake of recent tragic and violent events resulting from tensions regarding racial, ethnic, gender, religious, and cultural difference, books for children and adolescents provide one avenue for promoting healing and compassion. What role does current children’s and young adult literature play in nurturing and valuing diversity in all its forms?
Through an Anthropological Lens: Medicine, Music, Militarism
Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor Moderator: Miguel Diaz-Barriga, Carol L. Zicklin Chair for the Honors Academy
A panel of full-time, visiting, and adjunct faculty present recent work on social life in the Americas.
Group Identity and Epistemic Reasoning
Occidental Lounge, fifth floor Moderator: Noson Yanofsky, Computer and Information Science
Sociologists have discussed groups for a very long time now but it is only recently that logicians and computer scientists have started studying them. What are the current developments in the use of epistemic logic in studying groups?
Organizing Pilates-based Movement Fundamentals Through the Alexander Technique
Explore using the Alexander Technique’s mindful decompression of the back and spine to coordinate gentle Pilates based exercises. Wear comfortable clothing. Due to allergies/chemical sensitivities, you are asked to please refrain from using perfume and cologne. This workshop requires active participation.
Penthouse
Join the Faculty Day Chorus during the reception, accompanied by Len Fox and Nicholas Irons.
12:45–2:15 p.m. Gold Room, sixth floor
Members of the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern (LAMEM) Faculty Working Group
Presenters available during the luncheon period from 12:45 to 2:15 p.m. to discuss their work.
Penthouse, Student Center 3:45 p.m.
Michael Goyette, Classics
presented by Diana Horowitz, Art
The award, in the amount of $5,000, will be presented annually to a part-time (adjunct) faculty member for his or her demonstrated excellence in teaching and recognizes the important contributions made by adjunct faculty to teaching and learning at Brooklyn College.
Susan Davis, Conservatory of Music
presented by Sharon Beaumont-Bowman, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member for his or her demonstrated excellence in teaching at Brooklyn College.
Matthew Burgess, English presented by Sarah Christman, Film
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member of Brooklyn College for creative or artistic work.
Juergen Polle, Biology
presented by David Grubbs, Conservatory of Music
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member of Brooklyn College for outstanding scholarly work in his or her discipline.
Louise Hainline, Psychology presented by Wayne Reed, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member for meritorious service chiefly to Brooklyn College, but also for fulfillment of the college’s mission in its relationships with communities in the Greater New York area and beyond.
Benzion Chanowitz, Psychology
presented by Patrick Kavanagh, Acting Director of Graduate Studies
This award recognizes a member of the graduate faculty and acknowledges their extraordinary contribution to the college as teacher, adviser and mentor. The award establishes a $1,500 expense account to fund faculty travel, provide materials to support their graduate program, or support the research agenda of their students.
James Davis, English presented by Peter Taubman, Secondary Education
The Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award was established through a generous gift from Leonard Tow ’50, a trustee of the Brooklyn College Foundation, in honor of his wife, Claire Tow ’52. The award recognizes a senior member of the faculty for outstanding qualities as a teacher and for being a role model to students and other faculty. It carries a stipend of $10,000, to be paid in one installment through the Brooklyn College Foundation.
